by David Todd | Apr 17, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Seradata News, Technology
So keen are the boys at the US Air Force Research Laboratory on the UK firm Reaction Engines’ SABRE (Synthetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) heat exchanger technology (this writer is a shareholder) that they are apparently willing to do anything to get their hands on...
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2015 | commercial launch services, NASA, Technology
While Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) was still smarting over losing out to Boeing and SpaceX for NASA’s commercial crew transportation contracts, NASA is throwing its Dream Chaser mini-shuttle a life line. Now teamed with Lockheed Martin, SNC is being allowed to bid...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2015 | Satellites, SpaceX, Technology
For those getting too excited, or in your spacecraft history-tracking correspondent’s case, too fretful, over the prospect of constellations of hundreds or even thousands of communications satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), a word, or rather a table, of...
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2015 | Satellites, Technology
Greg Wyler, founder of the start-up satellite operator, OneWeb (formerly known as WorldVu), which proposes to put up a large constellation of 650 communications satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, cut a charismatic figure as he presented his wares at...
by David Todd | Mar 16, 2015 | Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Speaking at the Chief Technology Officers (CTO) roundtable at Satellite 2015 in Washington DC, Intelsat’s Executive Vice President and CTO Thierry Guillemin, outlined his firm’s plans for the future. Guilemin explained that his company’s new fleet of Epic...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2015 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
After examination of all the debris from the launch failure of the Antares 130 rocket in October last year, a surprising find was made. The small Danish 2U cubesat GOMX-2, which is a de-orbit technology test satellite, had actually survived the Antares explosive...
